waiting for the sun

Modeling Subjects Dioramas
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well… all it’s vanity,

so here another little work of my workbench. it all started as “one day kit” to be used as try at some medias and techniques (alclad paints, hair spray, oil pastels, etc. etc.) then my son saw it and liked it so much to convince me to transform a canvas in a paint… and to try other products, like water effect and pigments!

the alan’s kit it’s truly basic, yet a good and sturdy base to rage on it with all the stuff I had in mind…

urethane primer/alclad primer:

alclad:

lifecolors acrylics, then hairspary/salt and a sort of modulation with colors:

oil filters. dividing the main body in quarts, yellow, red, siena earth, raw umber (whoops, the doors upside down!)

then cassel and oil pastels!

ton-sur-ton and high contrast (I’m just tryng, remember?)

what else… some dust lifecolor, and mig pigments!

this story could end here, but as said before… “why we don’t do a little dio, dad?” and who in the hell am I to say no?!?

a little searching and thinking… and here we are:

the heavy car stuck in the mud, the young and the old waiting for help (oxen? horses?) and enjoyng the forced pause with some music.

so, a pictures wooden frame,

some clay,

and footstep, traces of wheels and beasts.

mmmmmmh… needs some…some… tea, and tobacco, and leaves? why not.

yep, better!

now just some fresh mud and dirty water vallejo (just the water, the dirty it’s proudly home made)

and… end? nop. the two guys where, at this point too poor, so I had my first attempt with green stuff…

well…better, uh? somehow…hemingwayan…

and, at last, the real end:

I thought at first to call it “waiting for the deceiving sun” mixing jim morrison and nikita mikhalkov, but I went back to some less complex to explain to my little son…

hoping you’ll like this bizarre project, I post the last two pics, to be seen with that on speakers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY5TUiqjyBc

bye bye, p.

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Very nice dio, I like it lot with the deep mud and just the subject.

Funny though, the title is the same as an old “Doors” album.

Mike T.

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I am glad you try things and listen to your son, it lets me learn good things with

out having to ask.

The two guys look very good sitting there, after all the vehicle is stuck so why not music and a pipe?

Your mud and dirty water realy looks the part-must be the good local dirt you added.

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Ay Caramba!

Outstanding work! I like the water in wheel tracks. Check that, I like the whole thing.

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Yeah great work there! The only thing I like better than the armoured car and figures is the over-all idea!

Just a great concept and excellent execution!

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Good work!

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Awesome job! Everything about it just looks spot on!

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Oh yeah, the idea is really cool, and a very nice execution! One thing though, for Rusian conditions the road is almost dry and almost paved [:D] I say the armored car broke down, or is just taking a break - if vehicles stuck in mud like you have shown in the Soviet Union, there would be no wheeled transport at all there. But anyhow, I like the dio a lot - congratulations on a very good build and thanks for sharing

Paweł